On Thursday 15 March 2007 20:44, Mike Seda wrote: > Fyi, my double migration was successfull... First I ran a job called T2D > and then ran a job called D2T... Basically, I used a disk array as a > temporary storage between the two tape pools... This was necessary since > I only have one tape drive
It is nice to hear that migration is actually being used. You might try a "test" restore from the final tape just to be sure. I don't expect any problems, but with something new like this, it is always conforting to have a confirmation. > > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Saturday 10 March 2007 19:25, Mike Seda wrote: > >> Hi Kern, > >> My proposed method may be feasible, but do you recommend a more elegant > >> solution to accomplish a migration job between two different tape pools > >> based on the storage resources at my disposal? I just want to make sure > >> before I make the necessary changes to my SAN fabric. > > > > I'm not the best person to make such recommendations since I am not using > > Migration in production as hopefully some people are. Perhaps someone > > else from the list will have a better idea. > > > >> Regards, > >> Mike > >> > >> Kern Sibbald wrote: > >>> On Friday 09 March 2007 02:33, Mike Seda wrote: > >>>> Hi All, > >>>> I too have switched off a few machines lately, and wish to save their > >>>> last complete backup to an Archive pool. Basically, I want to migrate > >>>> a few jobs from my "Weekly" pool to my "Archive" pool. Fortunately, I > >>>> too have one last full backup in the system, but since I only have one > >>>> tape drive migration is a bit tricky... I just wanted to run my > >>>> temporary solution by you before I implement it (btw, a second tape > >>>> drive is in our budget for next fiscal year): > >>>> > >>>> 1) Mount a 1 TB FC disk array (currently not being utilized) on the > >>>> bacula server > >>>> 2) Tell bacula the array is of Media Type "File" (my tape library is > >>>> Media Type "Tape"), and put it in the "Disk" pool. > >>>> 3) Do a migrate job from my "Weekly" pool to the "Disk" Pool. > >>>> 4) Do a migrate job from my "Disk" pool to the "Archive" Pool. > >>>> > >>>> Does this sound like a reasonable solution until I can spring for > >>>> another tape drive?... > >>> > >>> Obviously migrating with only one tape drive is not optimal, but what > >>> you describe sounds feasible. Be sure to mark the tapes you are taking > >>> offsite as Archive. > >>> > >>> We will be very interested to hear how this double migration works for > >>> you ... > >>> > >>>> Fyi, the array is fast (12 x 15 K FC disks in > >>>> RAID 5)... > >>>> > >>>> Fyi, my setup is: > >>>> Dell PE 2650 (1 x 73 GB RAID 1, 1 x 450 GB RAID 0 ) > >>>> Bacula 2.0.1 (400 GB of Data-Spooling configured to mitigate tape > >>>> shoe-shine, Current Pools=Weekly, Scratch) > >>>> RHEL 4 AS > >>>> Quantum PX502 (LTO-3, FC, 1-Drive) > >>>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> Mike > >>>> > >>>> Alan Brown wrote: > >>>>> I have a number of machines which have been switched off in the last > >>>>> 6 months and want to save their last complete backup to an archive > >>>>> pool in order to both free up the main pool and to ensure there's one > >>>>> last copy of everything. > >>>>> > >>>>> In some cases, there is one last full backup in the system, so all > >>>>> that'd be required is a single jobID migration > >>>>> > >>>>> In other cases, the migrated last full backup would have to be made > >>>>> up of full+diff+inc > >>>>> > >>>>> Does anyone have cookiecutter instructions for this? > >>>>> > >>>>> If so, they should be added to the manual's Migration chapter. > >>>>> > >>>>> AB > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>>-- -- Take Surveys. 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